Some of North America’s best pasty makers are heading for an exciting crimp-off at the sixth annual World Pasty Championships at the Eden Project on March 4, 2017. 

Four pasty specialists – two each from the United States and Canada – will be competing to be named the world’s top pasty maker at the annual event also known as the Oscars of the Oggy, it has been announced. 

Contestants can now register for the contest which has been supported by industry body the Cornish Pasty Association since 2012. 

Regular categories – amateur, professional, junior and company for both Cornish and non-Cornish pasties – all return while there is a new category for gluten-free pasties, open only to amateurs.  A new Pasty Ambassador will also be named. 

Gerry and Marlee Ramier from the Piskie Pie Company in St. Catherine’s, Ontario, Canada, are making their first trip to the Championships next year.

Also making his World Pasty Championships debut in 2017 is Mike ‘The Pasty’ Burgess who runs The Pure Pasty Co. in Vienna, Virginia, USA. 

British-born Mike sells 1,500 pasties a week and supplies the British Embassy in Washington DC. 

Returning for his third competition running will be 2016 World Pasty Championships Ambassador Matt Grant from The Great British Pasty and Pie Co. in Ottawa, Canada. 

The final member of the North American contingent is another former Pasty Ambassador and proud Cornishman turned Pennsylvania hotelier Mike Amery who has been competing since the contest’s inception. 

For all World Pasty Championships rules and entry details go to www.edenproject.com/pasty